Sunday, June 29, 2008

Station "Porte de Vincennes" (line 1) in Paris (France) will re-open tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, subway line 6 will close between "Bercy" and "Place d'Italie" for 2 monthes (a replacement bus service is available).

Paris-full-travaux(inner city subway, bus and RER networks). To use this one on a Palm device, you must get a recent version (5.6.0 or later) of the program and directly install the file on a memory card.

Next September, a major overhaul of the bus network in Lausanne (Switzerland) will occur with the opening of a new subway line. Greg provided the outlines of the new network and I prepared a new version of the database.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

This afternoon, a new river service named "Voguéo" will enter in service in Paris (France). I also took the opportunity to add the "Montmartre Funicular", which will be of particular interest to tourists ;-)

The changes are already made in our special "works" databases. Use our online update services or download these files here:

Paris-full-travaux(inner city subway, bus and RER networks). To use this one on a Palm device, you must get a recent version (5.6.0 or later) of the program and directly install the file on a memory card.

K. de Bondt reports the closing of the subway lines between Centraal station and Amstelstation in Amsterdam (Netherlands), from next Monday (June 30th) until August 17th. A shuttle bus service will be set up during this time.

A few days after releasing our first beta version of Metro for the Blackberry, a major issue has been encountered by some users: it appears that the software cannot access the Internet on some "personal" devices -- i.e. those that are not connected to an enterprise server.

The bad news is that it does not look easy to fix that problem, to put it mildly. I will try to find a solution but it may take time and in the interim, I'm afraid those users affected will have to do without MetrO...

The good news is that for users who don't have this problem, the software appears to run fine!

Thanks to all those who tried out this first release and reported about their experience. And special thanks to Luciano, who got out of his way to try and help me!

Paris-full-travaux(inner city subway, bus and RER networks). To use this one on a Palm device, you must get a recent version (5.6.0 or later) of the program and directly install the file on a memory card.

Monday, June 23, 2008

When I committed to deliver a version of MetrO for the BlackBerry monthes ago, I did not expect it would take so long. Today, at last, the wait is almost over and I am happy to release our first beta version of MetrO for BlackBerry.

It is not yet complete but I believe it has all the essential features that will make it useful on the first day. And despite what I have written before, this is a complete "on-board" software and you will need a network connection only to download the software itself and city databases.

Please note that this is beta software and it has not been extensively tested on real devices. If you don't want to take any risk with your data, please don't install MetrO on your BlackBerry yet.If you do want to participate in the beta phase, please report any issue you may encounter, providing as much detail as possible (and accept our apologies). Thanks in advance!

This afternon in Paris (France), subway line 13 extension - with 2 new stations - will officially enter in service. The change will be included in our next release (coming soon), but, in the meantime, our "works" versions are already up to date.

Paris-full-travaux(inner city subway, bus and RER networks). To use this one on a Palm device, you must get a recent version (5.6.0 or later) of the program and directly install the file on a memory card.

Thursday, June 05, 2008

During the soccer Euro, until the end of June, the transportation network in Vienna (Austria) will be slightly modified. On a suggestion by (and help from) D. Howarth, we provide a special version of our database here.

While preparing this file, I also noticed and fixed a few minor errors in our regular file.

Monday, June 02, 2008

Paris-full-travaux(inner city subway, bus and RER networks). To use this one on a Palm device, you must get a recent version (5.6.0 or later) of the program and directly install the file on a memory card.